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Show MEDICATION BY FORCE. STARTLING PROPOSITION MADE BY A NOTED PHYSICIAN. Sickness Should Ho PnnlNhsille by Law. He Advorutes That Them Be No Private 1'rHf'titinnrrn, hut an Organized Medical Police A IlHillral Men. "Sickness is a crime and should bs made punishable by law." ; This remark emanated from one of th most eminent ami highly respected phy- ; sicians in the city. "No physician, however far advanced 1 in his profession he may be, can conscientiously con-scientiously say that ho is infallibly fa-miliar fa-miliar with the cases he is called on to treat," continued the doctor. "My opinion is, as much as I love my profession, profes-sion, that the sooner tho present class of doctors is wiped out the better. I believe be-lieve that the government should have complete charge of caring for the sick tjironghnut the country, and that the most inh,"rabh( pauper should have the sumo treatment and show for his life that tho millionaire has. I believe that if such was tho case sicknesscould be reduced re-duced bmieh a minimum that the legislature legis-lature could conscientiously construct a law making it a crime to bo sick. Epi- uriiiii n C ui.t, I 1 ( rill ill i;i-rvMi,vint nil' I ill! sicKiii sM s result, from abuses of the human hu-man system und nt glcr. "My suggestion would be to have tho government select, certain physicians and educate them up to the very best standard stand-ard possible to be obtained in medicine. Let expense be u secondary consideration, considera-tion, if it cost a million dollars to reach this end let it 1m sjient. After these physicians have attained their education cause a medical department to lie established estab-lished on the same general plan w the police department is run. ins t SlvI K PLAN. "Have a chief of physicians, inspector of physicians, captains of physicians, sergeants and patrolmen, the same as the police department has. Let this city, for instance, be divided into precincts pre-cincts and sub-precincts, mid let the pa- ,h,,,,i, it .,...,, c ,,,,n, .....i . . u ....... . J ,M1J , ItllU where sickness is found let reports ho lii.ide and the proper medical remedies applied. Let every person, rich or poor, receive the s'lme proper treatment. "Let a;arie: of tho of'uc-rs be of si.cii a -tai..l:i! 1 a.i I liio ruics governing govern-ing ;h Oepartuu-iit lie so si riot that it woiiU be lolly for a subordinate to attempt at-tempt discrimination between the rich and poor. Make it a crime punishable by imprisonment for a person to attempt to employ a physician not appointed in thedepartniont. Have it so systematized that a jiersoii colli I not bo taken down siek without the fact becoming immediately immedi-ately known to ti.e department and the disease checked in its incipiency. "For instance, supiose a patrolman should discover a peculiar disease in a tenement houso district. Let him administer ad-minister to the inin"diat relief of the patient and report the case to his cnt-tain. cnt-tain. The latter reports it to the chief and the chief sends one of his staff of expert ex-pert physicians to diagnose the case and then apply the proper remedies. "There is no reason why people should be sick, and when it is discovered that the same persons have become sick several sev-eral times with the samediseu.se through their own carelessness they should be arrested mid imprisoned as criminals. CKIMINAL MAM'RACTICE. "As strange and preposterous as it mnj- seem, according to years of observation observa-tion and careful calculation and comparison compar-ison with other countries, there are in the United States more than a million cases of criminal malpractice annually under the present system of doctoring. This is one of the principal evils that would bo checked should the government establish es-tablish such a department as I have described. de-scribed. "It would lie only a comparatively short tinio when we would have the healthiest city in tho world, and it would ultimately result in establishi ig a condition of affairs wdiere sickness, except ex-cept in a natural way, would lx) entirely eliminated. "Why, just take tho report of the mortality in this state. It shows a death rate of 2i!J persons a day, or an annual rate of 1(1 persons to every 1,000 inhabitants. Nearly one-third of these deaths occurred under tho age of 5 years from diseases that with proper and immediate im-mediate attention could have lieen cured. Diphtheria, scarlet fever, whooping cough, measles, diarrheal diseases and typhoid fever were the principal causes j of death. Under the svstem I have de- scribed patrolmen could have discovered these cases in time to have checked the diseases and saved the persons' lives. "It is tho only way by which epidemics epi-demics of infections diseases can lie successfully suc-cessfully eradicated, and the sooner tho government sees the necessity of establishing estab-lishing such a department and overthrowing over-throwing tho present swtem of doctoring doctor-ing the sick tho better it will be for tho nation."' New York Telegram. |